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GREATER WAX MOTH

Specialty Definition: GREATER WAX MOTH

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Food & Agriculture

A moth whose larva feeds on the wax of the combs of the honeybee. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GREATER WAX MOTH

Language Translations for "GREATER WAX MOTH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

voksmoel (bee moth). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

grote wasmot (bee moth). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

isovahakoisa (bee moth). (various references)

   

French

  

gallérie, ver de la cire, fausse-teigne, fausse teigne des abeilles. (various references)

   

German

  

große Wachsmotte der Bienen (bee moth). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεγάλος κηρόσκορος των μελισσών (bee moth). (various references)

   

Italian

  

grande tignola della cera (bee moth), piralide degli alveari (bee moth), mielivora (bee moth). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eatergray axway othmay

   

Portuguese

  

grande traça da cera (bee moth). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

polilla (clothes moth, moth), falsa tina de las abejas (bee moth). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vaxmal (bee moth), stort vaxmott (bee moth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: GREATER WAX MOTH

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Latin500 BCE-Modern

Galleria mellonella(Lepidoptera). (various references)

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Anagrams: GREATER WAX MOTH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-h-m-o-r-r-t-t-w-x"

-4 letters: metathorax.

-5 letters: earthworm, heartworm, rotameter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Translations: Ancient
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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